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Ukraine Strikes Deep into Russia with Drones Amid Peace Talks
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In Short: Ukrainian forces launched more than 1,000 drones toward Russia overnight, targeting Moscow and other key locations, as peace talks between Ukraine and Russia continued.
Ukrainian forces launched more than 1,000 drones toward Russia overnight, targeting Moscow and other key locations, as peace talks between Ukraine and Russia continued.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Kyiv used a range of missiles and drones, including domestically made Flamingo and Pelican missiles, to hit oil and logistics facilities.
Zelenskyy emphasized that the attacks aim to put financial pressure on Russia's economy, targeting billions of dollars that sustain the war machine.
The attacks also aimed to make the Russian public feel the war's consequences and pressure President Vladimir Putin into negotiating a peace settlement.
Russia was holding parliamentary elections in the annexed Ukrainian regions and Crimea, its first wartime parliamentary election.
Russia's Ministry of Defense reported shooting down 1,100 Ukrainian drones across the country, including over Crimea and the Black Sea.
Kyiv is pushing for a peace settlement, with U.S. peace envoys meeting with both Putin and Zelenskyy to discuss a potential path toward ending the war.
Ukrainian defense manufacturer Fire Point claimed involvement in the Novy Urengoy attack, stating that a drone covered more than 3,300 kilometers and successfully hit the target.
What this adds
Ukraine’s General Staff reported additional strikes on Russian military infrastructure, including a Buk-M3 air defense complex, a Nebo-U radar station, and a drone production site in Severodonetsk.
Background
Ukraine’s General Staff said the Makhachkala Sea Commercial Port in Russia’s Dagestan was hit overnight on September 10, with a fire recorded at the site.
Ukraine has launched a significant drone attack on Moscow, damaging a key oil refinery and causing widespread disruption, as Russia retaliated with missile strikes.
What's confirmed
- Fox News reporter Stephanie Bennett has the latest on U.S. peace envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy as the Trump administration pushes to revive stalled peace negotiations, with discussions focusing on a potential path toward ending the war and broader diplomatic efforts on 'Special Report.' Ukrainian drones struck deep into Russia’s Arctic north Wednesday, sparking a fire at an industrial facility in Novy Urengoy, a city in the heart of Russia’s most important natural-gas producing region.
- A rescuer works at the site of a Russian drone strike in Dnipro, Ukraine, in a picture released on April 30. (Governor of Dnipropetrovsk Regional Military Civil Administration Serhiy Lysak via Telegram/Handout via Reuters) United24 described Wednesday’s attack as the deepest Ukrainian drone strike inside Russia since Moscow launched its full-scale invasion in February 2022.
What's still developing
- Moscow's mayor described the wave of drones as the "largest ever" attack on the Russian capital and said there had been damage to a Moscow oil refinery and a residential building.
- The roots of Russia's invasion of Ukraine go back decades and run deep.
- The voting underway in Russia is the country's first wartime parliamentary election — balloting that has been virtually devoid of opposition to President Vladimir Putin's policies and is all but certain to cement the Kremlin's dominance.
- Regional Gov. Dmitry Artyukhov said Russian air defenses repelled the attack but falling drone debris caused a fire at an industrial site.
- Russia resumed major missile and drone attacks on Kyiv shortly after the American delegation left Ukraine, killing five people and wounding 35 on Tuesday, Reuters reported.
- Smoke and flames rise over Moscow on June 18, 2026, following a Ukrainian drone attack that hit the Kapotnya oil refinery and other targets in the Russian capital. (East2West) But the source said Russian officials can interpret Western outreach differently.
- "Whenever you talk with them, they consider that this is a Western weakness," the source said, adding that the assessment was based in part on informal contacts with Russian officials.
- The United Nations said last month that Russian attacks killed or wounded more Ukrainian civilians in July than in any month since March 2022, with 437 killed and more than 2,600 wounded.
- More than 16,800 Ukrainian civilians have been killed and more than 51,000 wounded since Russia launched its full-scale invasion in February 2022, according to the U.N. Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine.
- Artem Zhoga, Putin’s envoy to Russia’s Urals Federal District, said a Ukrainian drone had attempted to strike a fuel-and-energy facility in Yamal, according to Meduza.
- About 80% of Russia’s natural gas is extracted there.
- Zelenskyy said Ukrainian forces also struck targets around the Black Sea port of Novorossiysk, including a naval base, an oil-loading terminal, military port facilities and warships capable of carrying cruise missiles.